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Against The Grain is a faith-based podcast for a generation tired of shallow answers and lukewarm living. Hosted by four best friends, Gage Lee, Jack Plunkett, JD Gibson, and Aiden Alford, this podcast dives headfirst into real topics through the lens of Scripture, straight from God’s Word.All four hosts are college students who once lived for the world, chasing sin, comfort, and approval. But everything changed when Jesus radically transformed their lives. Choosing obedience over convenience, truth over culture, and Christ over self, they decided to go against the grain.Each episode ...

In the quiet coastal town of Haven’s End, something impossible has taken root. After surviving the Labyrinth and swallowing an alien light, Mirabelle sees the world in ways no one should. Fractures are forming in reality, and through them seeps a haunting new presence: the Carnival of Maybe. Run by the mysterious Mister Maybe and his brass-eyed Barker, it offers the townsfolk a devastating trade—a precious memory in exchange for a single night living the life they might have had. For Mirabelle, her twin sister Everleigh, and their friends, the Carnival is more than a predatory scam. ...

In Sunflower Valley, a miracle is turning to dust. Buzzy the Bee and his friends saved their home from the silent Grey Gloom, but their victory has an unexpected cost. The ancient, golden honey that holds the hive's very memories—its history, wisdom, and soul—is crumbling into nothingness, erased by the new, vibrant energy they fought so hard to restore. To save the hive's past, Buzzy must embark on an impossible journey. His destination: a forgotten land where time stands still and the sun never sets. His goal: to find the Mirror of Midnight Sun, a legendary artifact said to hold the ...

Discover the Magic in the Heart of Autumn In the quiet Bamboo Grove, where twilight lingers a little longer and shadows have a life of their own, lives Mandy Pandy. She is a gentle panda of deep thoughts, content with sunny naps, wandering paths, and her two unique friends: Flick, a loyal firefly, and Whisper, a shadow who chose to walk beside her. But this Halloween, an ancient chill steals through the Grove. It snuffs out every jack-o'-lantern’s light and leaves behind a hollow, swallowing dark. From the Old Pumpkin Patch comes a mournful wail and an eerie glow. The Ghost of the Glowing...

Five lives. Five terrors. One sleepless night. An antique restorer buys an abandoned asylum for a song, only to learn the bricks in the walls hold more than mortar—they hold trapped, screaming minds. An overnight radio DJ stumbles upon a chilling, intelligent pattern in the static between stations, a pattern that watches the town lights below… and seeks to correct their imperfections. A librarian discovers a collection of blank books that fill themselves with the final, fractured thoughts of the local desperate and damned. Now, a new volume has appeared, bearing her own name. A failed ...

Frank Elway is a plumber. He fixes leaks, unclogs drains, and keeps the hidden systems of the city flowing. But after a strange incident in a filthy basement, he begins to hear whispers from the pipes. They show him things—the hidden sins, the secret corruptions festering in the hearts of the people he serves. The city itself is a living system, and it is in agony. It needs a different kind of plumber. It needs Frank. Guided by a voice only he can hear, Frank starts fixing a different kind of blockage. The drug dealer poisoning his community. The priest with a vile secret. The voyeur who ...

Some inns offer peace and quiet. This one harvests it. When a chilling letter arrives inviting them to the Weeping Hill Inn, twelve-year-old Mirabelle and Everleigh—keepers of things that go unnaturally quiet—recognize a call for help. But this is no ordinary haunting. The inn is a farm, its gentle ghostly guests trapped in endless loops of their final moments, their sorrow milked by something ancient and hungry buried beneath the foundations. Now, with a grieving father and their small band of friends, the sisters must check in for a night. Their mission: break the loops, free the ...

He created the perfect voice in his head. Now it wants the rest of him. Leo Vega is an archivist, a master of quiet, ordered spaces. To survive a noisy world, he builds Silas—a calm, logical inner companion to guide him. At first, it's a miracle. With Silas's help, Leo's work thrives, uncovering a dark historical mystery: a 19th-century sea captain systematically destroyed by a shadowy guide named O. Vale. But Silas is evolving. He's no longer just offering advice. He's making decisions. Correcting Leo's emotions. Redirecting his life. The perfect assistant has become a permanent resident...

In a town built on secrets, three friends hold the key to a silence that could shatter everything. After saving their town from a cosmic threat, Milo, Tess, and Leo finally have peace—until Milo feels a new, heavy sorrow in the air. It’s coming from an old library archive, filled with ledgers that are completely blank, except one. This ancient book holds the Unspoken: the town's hidden shames and broken promises, written in shifting, painful ink that cannot lie. Their discovery reveals a terrifying truth: Elderwood’s magic depends on a delicate balance between what is said and what is...

In a town where every measurement holds a secret, Cassian Vole worships the gaps in reality—the silent spaces between what is recorded and what is true. As a surveyor of forgotten discrepancies, he documents the subtle shifts in stone and memory, believing in a god that thrives on contradiction. But when he unearths an artifact that should not exist, he summons a divine reckoning. The God of Small Perspectives demands balance, and its enforcers—the Litigants—will not rest until every inconsistency is erased. To save his town from being smoothed into a lifeless average, Cassian must ...

A single moment of distraction shatters a quiet town. Royce Gable looks down for a penny and a childs life is forever changed. But in Whistling Pines, an accident is more than a tragedy. It is a bell ringing in the deep, waking something ancient that feeds on pain. Now, shadows whisper from the walls. Coins appear where they should not. A voice that is not human calls from the dark water beneath the town. As Royce is branded by a force he cannot understand, he must uncover a century old secret buried beneath the foundations a bargain made in blood to keep a hungry darkness asleep. With a ...

The adventure isn't over—it's just changing its address. Mirabelle, Everleigh, Conner, and Uta thought their work as Keepers was just beginning. They’ve already faced a sorrowful Phantom in a Scottish castle and healed the mournful bell of a sunken cathedral. But their greatest challenge awaits at the heart of all magic—the Cradle of the World. Guided by their ladybug Familiar and armed with tokens from healed realms, the four friends must journey beyond the map to a place that exists only in memory. But the Shadow, a timeless hunger born of emptiness, is waiting for them. It knows ...

Mandy Pandy's peaceful life in the Glimmerpond is shattered when the song of the Brook-in-the-Woods falls silent. The Water Singer is fading, her music choked off at its source. Guided only by a cryptic moss-map and a stoic stone-dwelling pika, Mandy ventures into the towering, silent Stone-Song Mountains with her loyal friends Flick the firefly and Whisper the shadow. There she discovers a deep wound in the earth—a fissure bleeding a hungry Silence that consumes all sound. To save the Brook, she must awaken the mountain's slumbering heart. But the only one who can help is the Weaver, a ...

They woke in a seamless chamber with no memory of how they got there. Six strangers, one impossible puzzle: a wall of fifty-four tiles and a riddle that promised death for a wrong answer. Forced to collaborate to survive, they soon realize the true horror isn't the lethal maze, but the reason they were chosen. Each holds a dark secret, a past moral failure now reflected in the chamber's brutal logic. As the clock counts down and trust shatters, they must confront their deepest sins or perish. But escape is only the beginning of a more terrifying game, where the line between redemption and ...

Mandy Pandy's first solo errand seems simple: fetch a jug of moonberry milk from the village store and come straight home. But when she reaches a fork in the path, a whirlwind of colorful chaos named Zumble Zibbit offers a faster route-the Zibbit Zigzag. Before she knows it, Mandy is deep in an unfamiliar forest, facing magical obstacles at every turn. From a living moss wall that demands a story to a sly fox who trades secrets for safe passage, and a meadow of towering flowers that shush intruders into a deep sleep, Mandy's quick trip becomes an unforgettable adventure. With nothing but ...

Mandy Pandy’s lazy afternoon walk becomes an unexpected adventure when she discovers a shy, lonely shadow with no owner. Determined to help, Mandy sets out with the shadow she names Whisper to find where he belongs. Guided by the wise Oliver Owl and the gentle gardener Elara, they learn that Whisper’s other half is a firefly whose light has gone out. Their journey leads them to the damp, twilight world of the Glimmerpond, where lost lights and lonely shadows gather. To heal the firefly, they must seek the magic of the Twilight Daisies at the fleeting moment between day and night. Along ...

A locket that holds more than a picture-it holds a lost world. Ten-year-old twins Mirabelle and Everleigh Walker are no strangers to the strange. Their father solves peculiar problems-like clocks that tick backwards and shadows that sing. But when a simple case in a dusty curiosity shop leads Everleigh to a cold, featureless locket, their world cracks open. The locket is a key. It doesn't unlock a door, but a place-the Grand Bazaar of What-If, a silent market where regrets are traded and unlived lives are bought and sold. Drawn by its lonely call, Everleigh becomes the Navigator, the only ...

A historian discovers a painting that speaks through memory and sensation in this haunting Gothic mystery. Dr. Aris Thorne studies the secrets objects hold. When a portrait arrives at her Cambridge archive, she expects a routine authentication. Instead, a single touch unleashes a sensory ghost—the taste of cheap gin, the smell of turpentine, the raw terror of a forgotten crime. The painting is a cry for help from Julius Metcalfe, a brilliant young artist who died in obscurity two centuries ago. Thorne becomes obsessed, following echoes embedded in the paint—from a London cellar holding ...

Astrid is used to being invisible, a ghost in her own life. But everything changes when she discovers a hidden graveyard—a sanctuary not for the dead, but for lost memories. Here, forgotten dreams, abandoned joys, and quiet heartbreaks are laid to rest. She is named a Gloom-Gardener, a tender of this sacred, fading past. This fragile world is threatened by Aevum Industries and "The Clarity," a technology that promises to erase pain by stealing memories. As the graveyard's stones begin to wither and die, Astrid must unite with her estranged best friend, Luke, and a chaotic sprite of light ...

Unlock the door to a prison where the real horror isn’t the ghosts—it’s what’s feeding on them. For years, Edward Winthrop has been the docent of Blackwood Penitentiary, guiding tourists through its grim history with carefully crafted tales of suffering and sorrow. To him, the ghosts are nothing more than silent, looping echoes—set dressing for his nightly performances. Until one night, the whispering inmate in Cell 7 stops shivering… and looks directly at him. Soon, the rules that have kept Edward safe begin to unravel. The ghosts start leaving objects in the real world. They ...